REF: reality in Lynch/ Mulholland Drive...
Firstly, thanks to everyone for their replies...I'm still checking out a lot
of the films mentioned...
I'm also tackling Deleuze:Cinema 2:time-image...
Looking through chapter 4 on the crystal image, it seemed relevant to
Mulholland Drive...
Can anyone highlight for me how the crystal image bears reference to
Mulholland Drive?
Can I see Mulholland Drive as a crystal image...
Or does the idea of the crystal image usually refer to an exact,specific
moment?
He says it is
'... the point of indiscernibility between the actual and the virtual, while
what we see in the
crystal is time itself, a bit of time in the pure state, the very
distinction between the two
images which keeps on reconstituting itself...'
...I need to read it several more times...and get a bit more of a grip on
it...
just wondered if any of you could help? : )
Or perhaps point me in the direction of a useful URL/book that may clarify
his ideas for me a little more?
Sincerely
Sam Rees
>From: Ross Macleay <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Film-Philosophy Salon <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Mister Lynch...
>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:01:30 +1000
>
>I am not so sure that I would say that Mulholland Drive is an alternative
>realities story or a hyperreality story. Although the film does just
>present
>them that way with each one being given the same epistemological value as
>the other, the second story (the key) seems to provide the empirical
>version
>of an experience that the first story dreams. The first story is almost a
>Freudian dream version of the second. It seems to be a dream that tries to
>censor the shameful details of the second by juxtapositions, substitutions
>and such.
>
>Ross
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